Saturday, October 11, 2014

The Multi Peformer: Morgan James


Morgan James is a British actor and singer well known for recurrent collaborations with BBC along the last 20 years. Despite being born in Wales, James started his series of works on BBC quite earlier, and since then moved to London where he also dedicated a lot of his time on theater plays. In the last years, James also dedicated himself to music, singing and performing live. Recently, he also adventured himself as a theater practitioner, bring the dramatic skills to a corporate set of creative practices in Los Angeles. Restless would be the best word to describe this skilled artist who has the performance as his main goal.
Early Years
James was always interested in good projects, despite being able to be lead or supportive character. The beginning of his career happened while BBC was shooting a movie for TV on the little village where he was born and raised in the South Wales. At the time only a child, James appeared on BBC's The Citadel adaption and from that time on he would pursue the dramatic arts during his childhood and teens with a serious aim to become a professional actor. During his early '20s he moved to London, where he would play a part more often on all series of production, both for TV and theater, which turned to be one of his big passions overall. He even graduated on Brunel University on Drama and American history.

TV
Morgan has been work on several productions on BBC and gathered enough experience to even work behind the cameras as a writer and voice continuity presenter. In the recent years he notably could be seen on productions like Wanted and Aberfan-The Untold Story from the British TV channel. Most notably, he could be seen recently on BBC's hit series Being Human as an eccentric gimp villain in one of the episodes of the second season. Also, in late '00s Morgan got a regular part as the continuity presenter of BBC's Watch channel, where he was to do his job as a live presenter.

Cinema and Theater
As the TV screens seem not enough to his eager talent, James is restless and work on many different projects. Recently he played a part in independent productions of the British cinema, like in the web shorts series The Red Zone. However, the theater has been and is one of his main stages. His work includes praised plays like Joe DePietro's "F***ing Man!" and John Osborne's "The Devil Inside Him".

Morgan is actively working on all these drama fields these days, going where the great projects calls.

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